The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient h... -Jill Tarter

The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.

Jill Tarter , Scientist
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Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so they'd all be ...
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through...
We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth, and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most star...
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy....

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Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives u...
It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict the... where science c...
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how y...
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the...
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful....
The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of ...
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them....
If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must investigate quite differently from the latter. It ...
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic....
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second...